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Ilam Taj looks towards the grey winter sky to say a quick prayer of thanks for her baby daughter, Afaida, who is bubbling with energy. Afaida’s grandmother, Feroza Bibi, joins Ilam in the prayer: “Praise be to Allah, for he gave her back to us.”
Afaida was born prematurely in Pathank...

Afeel Khan and his family fled their home in mid-November. They lived in the town of Bara, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) near the border with Afghanistan. But intense fighting between militants and Government forces made life there unsafe.
Afeel, his wife and their five children...

As the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance worldwide grows, humanitarian agencies will again rely on resources from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to respond to crises in 2015.
CERF will hold its annual pledging conference on 17 December in New York. The aim is to raise US$450...

Nirmala had lost all hope for her 13 month old son Popat. He was dying. “It’s hard to see your child wasting away in front of your eyes,” the mother of five said.
Popat was suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Tharparkar, a rural district of Sindh province in south-east Pakistan,...

Sagher Ullah is no stranger to hardships. He lost one of his legs at a young age, and since then he has learnt to negotiate the tough conditions of Pakistan’s remote North Waziristan. However, recent events have pushed Sagher to his limits.
“It would be better to go back home and risk...